Conference Directory · Online
Online Model UN peaked during the pandemic and then thinned out fast. The virtual editions of the flagship conferences, NHSMUN, Harvard MUN, and MUNUC among them, were COVID-era measures and have all returned to in-person only, and several once-loved online programs have wound down. What remains is a short list of programs with real, current activity, which is exactly what this page tracks.
The survivors are genuinely useful, especially for students without a school club or in regions with a thin local circuit. Sessions run on Zoom, fees range from free to a few hundred dollars, and the better programs publish named staff, capped committee sizes, and real background guides. One caution: a cottage industry of pay-for-certificate operations runs near-weekly numbered online conferences. If a site’s main pitch is the certificate rather than the debate, skip it.
6 conferences listed · Last verified July 2026
DMUN Foundation (youth-led nonprofit) · Online
Completely free short online conferences in varied formats, General Assembly, crisis, moot court, and model parliament, with individual sign-up. The foundation reports participants from more than 70 countries since 2021.
Best Delegate / MUN Institute · Online
A drop-in online club for grades 5 to 12 with biweekly Sunday lessons, separate beginner and advanced tracks, and one fall plus one spring virtual conference. Around 360 dollars for the year, with financial aid offered.
Best Delegate / MUN Institute · Online
A one-week, 15-hour online camp taught by college MUN mentors, tiered by age and experience from ages 9 to 18, ending in a two-day mock conference.
Montessori Model United Nations · Online
A year-long classroom curriculum for ages 9 to 15 culminating in a week-long online UN-style conference, with session times built for different time zones. In-person editions also run in New York, Rome, and Bangkok.
O-MUN volunteer network · Online
The pioneering pre-COVID online MUN program, which ran monthly global debates for school students.
Discontinued: O-MUN’s online programming wound down and its old domain no longer serves an official site. Listed because students still search for it.
MUN Impact · Online
Free online conferences that reached tens of thousands of students worldwide during 2020 to 2022, including middle-school-friendly formats.
The organization returned from hiatus in late 2024 focused on free resources and small projects; its COVID-era online conference programs were drawn down.
As a supplement, yes; as a substitute for in-person committee, only partly. Online conferences are excellent for reps, especially for students without a school club, and the free DMUN Foundation events make the cost of trying zero. But floor presence, note-passing, and bloc dynamics work differently in a physical room, so students aiming at competitive in-person conferences should treat online events as practice rather than the destination.
Look for what serious programs publish: named staff, specific dates, capped committee sizes, and real background guides. Be wary of operations running numbered online conferences nearly every week, one such site currently advertises its 272nd, where the product is effectively a participation certificate. A certificate from an event like that carries no weight with schools or admissions readers.
No. The virtual editions of the major flagships were pandemic-era measures, and NHSMUN, HMUN, MUNUC, and their peers are back to in-person only. Any site still selling a virtual seat at those conferences is stale or unofficial. For a real online season, the active programs on this page are the current options.
The range is wide but transparent among legitimate programs: DMUN Foundation conferences are free, Best Delegate’s year-long online club runs about 360 dollars including two virtual conferences, and its one-week virtual summer camps list at roughly 400 to 550 dollars, with financial aid available. Treat prices far outside that band, in either direction, as a prompt to look closer.
Start with the two-week first-conference prep plan, print the first-conference checklist, and draft your paper with the position paper template. The guide to how awards actually work explains what chairs score once you get there.